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  • Headstones stagger under great draughts of time after heads pass out, and their world must reel speechless, blind in the end about its chilling star

    -John originally John Allyn Smith Berryman
      'Homage to Mistress Bradstreet', stanza 55.

  • They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits'end.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms107:27.

  • The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. Song of Solomon

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Isaiah 24:20.

  • I played the young Earl of Dudleyand was beheaded in the third reelnot, in my opinion, a moment too soon.

    - SirJohn Lewis Ernest Watts Mills
      Of his role in the1936 film Tudor Rose. Up in the Clouds, Gentlemen Please.

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